Improvement in guide-rolling hoop



@man 'tfita Letters Patent No. 91,755, dated .Tune 22,1869.

mPROV-EMENT IN GUIDE-ROLLING- HOOP.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sansa.

To `all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Emo LINDHOLM, of Brooklyn,

Kings county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Rolling-Hoop, or toy for children; and do hereby declare that the tbilowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had lto the accompanying drawings, making part of this specidca.- Y

tion, of which- Figure 1 represents an elevation;

Figure 2, atop view; and

Figure 3, a top view of the hoop.

This invention relates to` a guide-rolling hoop for young children who are not grown, or sutiiciently dexteious to manage a rolling-hoop with a stick or beater; au

It consists of an ordinary rolling-hoop, to which is attached a guide, said guide consisting of a handle, (which is held by the child,) having a slotted springclasp, which embraces the hoop, and through which the hoop revolves, by means of which the child is enabled to roll the hoop along in a vertical position, and

guide, detached from the direct its course, and, when desired, can detach the guide and use the same as a beater, as the grown children do,

In the drawings- A indicates the hoop.

spring-clasp, D, having circular openings, d d, through by the child holding the handle.

This guide is capable of being sprung on, and in like manner detached from the hoop, as represented in g. 3, for the purpose stated.

I do not claim a trnndling-guide, embracing the hoop.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction of the. guide B, with curved springclasp D, having free vopenings d (l at the ends, while the elastic middle portion thereof retains the hoop in the guide, substantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature, this 29th day of September, A. D. 1868.

Witnesses: ERIC LINDHOLM.

A. NEILL, ARTHUR B. WrLLrAns.

B, the guide, which consists of thehandle, C, and` which the hoop revolves as the same isV pushed along 

